| Description | Reciting that the Queen by indenture under seal of the Duchy of Lancaster dated 4 July 24 Elizabeth I [1582] leased to Edward Showre and to Thomas Leigh esquire and 35 other named persons, all that parcel of "Arbage" called Meanstone Filde otherwise called Chimlees [Chinley] in the High Peak, parcel of the said Duchy, and the soil and ground with cottages thereupon, reserving the water mill called Meanstone Filde Milne with watercourse, and woods, to the use of each of them according to the quantity and portions which they severally held in the arbage ground, soil and cottages as tenants of the Queen according to the effect of a schedule annexed to the recited indenture, to hold from annunciation [25 March] then last past before the deed for 31 years at a rent of £11, and reciting that Showre should have for his portion for the arbage half a neighbourship, it being agreed by the lessees that a neighbourship comprised a fortieth of the arbage and that it contained 40 neighbourships, and witnessing that for a certain sum of money, Showre's assignment of his part of the arbage to Bawdon for remainder of the term.
Dated 29 March 32 Elizabeth |